Deans' stroke musings: Betrayal of stroke patients: Sufferers are forced to wait months for NHS rehab

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, October 21, 2016

Betrayal of stroke patients: Sufferers are forced to wait months for NHS rehab

The real betrayal is that your doctors are doing NOTHING during the first week to stop the neuronal cascade of death by these 5 causes. Rehab is a total failure since only 10% of stroke survivors fully recover and zero percent of that is from your doctors intervention. Solve the correct problem.

Betrayal of stroke patients: Sufferers are forced to wait months for NHS rehab

Stroke victims are having to wait more than four months for physiotherapy after leaving hospital, according to a report.

The delays have a ‘devastating’ impact on patients’ recovery and undo previous painstaking hard work, experts say.

Around 152,000 UK adults suffer a stroke each year and some are left paralysed on one side of the body or very weak in their limbs.

They have to relearn basic movements through physiotherapy sessions involving repetitive exercises.

Research by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy found 85 per cent of health trusts do not offer stroke victims physiotherapy within two weeks of leaving hospital. A fifth make them wait at least 13 weeks and 4 per cent cannot offer sessions until after 18 weeks.

The society’s Catherine Pope said: ‘The results of this audit are a stark reminder that too many patients are being let down once they leave hospital.

Dominic Brand, of the Stroke Association, has called the NHS figures 'extremely concerning'

The research involved Freedom of Information requests to all 209 clinical commissioning groups in England, of which 135 replied.

Dominic Brand, a spokesman for the Stroke Association, described the findings as ‘extremely concerning’.

‘Major strides have been made in the way stroke is treated in hospital; however, it is clear that far too many stroke survivors are going without the right support,’ he said.

‘Stroke survivors regularly tell us they have had to wait weeks – and in some cases months – for the support and therapy they need to rebuild their lives.

‘For too many people, their support comes too late, it stops too soon, or they don’t have access to all types of therapy they need.’